BOSTON – October 27, 2026 -- Mutual Benefit Group (MBG) has selected four Duck Creek products, Policy, Billing, Producer Portal and Clarity Data Foundation, to run a greenfield build of its future-state platform for a new business in Delaware, Duck Creek announced.

MBG to launch three commercial lines in Delaware

The Delaware business will start with Businessowners Policy, Commercial Umbrella and Workers' Compensation coverage. MBG will expand into other states only once it has proven out the model, according to the company.

MINNEAPOLIS and HOUSTON – October 27, 2026 -- Skyward Group has become the primary carrier partner of AI-native insurer Slingshot Insurance. The deal gives Slingshot customers access to an AM Best A-rated carrier in all 50 U.S. states.

Skyward co-led Slingshot's $27 million seed round

The partnership follows Slingshot's emergence from stealth with a $27 million seed round co-led by Skyward Group. Skyward's operating businesses include Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. and Apollo Group Holdings Ltd. The group trades on Nasdaq under the ticker SKWD.

Boston – October 27, 2026 -- Sycurio launched Sycurio.Analytics, an on-demand analytics suite that lets enterprises using its Sycurio.Digital platform pinpoint where customers abandon payments and where technical faults disrupt transactions. Centralized dashboards track payment volumes, conversion rates and payment service provider (PSP) performance.

Wiesbaden – October 27, 2026 -- German households saved 18.9% of their gross disposable income in 2025, 4.6 percentage points above the European Union average of 14.3%, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), which published the data ahead of World Savings Day on Oct. 30/31.

Brazil – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake has made its Online Feature Store generally available, serving machine learning features in under 10 ms for real-time fraud detection. Two financial-sector customers, Neon and VALID Systems, report lower latency and lower fraud losses after moving to the platform.

Hamburg – October 27, 2026 -- German corporate insolvencies will rise 8% in 2026 to 25,900 cases, the highest level in 13 years, according to Allianz Trade's latest global insolvency study. The credit insurer expects no relief in 2027, with cases flat (0%) at the same level.

Middle East – October 27, 2026 -- GPS jamming affected 124,235 vessels worldwide in the third quarter of 2026, according to Windward's Q3 Maritime Risk Report. The AIS records marine insurers have long used to settle pay-or-reject decisions are no longer a reliable basis for loss investigation in the highest-risk regions.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Coalition's newly appointed Chief Information Security Officer, a 25-year InfoSec veteran, argues that security teams run on a finite supply of organizational trust, and that high-friction controls drain it and push staff toward less-protected workarounds.

Europe – October 27, 2026 -- The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has named geopolitical risks and uncertainties, and restructuring provisions and debt restructuring, as enforcement focus areas for listed issuers' 2026 annual financial reports under its European Common Enforcement Priorities (ECEP).

EU – October 27, 2026 -- The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) has published its Annual Work Programme for 2027. It lists digital operational resilience, technological innovation, sustainable finance, securitisation and cross-sectoral risk monitoring as the five key priorities for the EU financial sector.